SCRIPT CarpeDiem Dataset: demographics, outcomes, and per-day clinical parameters for critically ill patients with suspected pneumonia

Traditional approaches to analyzing episodes of patient care in the ICU
examine features on presentation and outcomes on discharge, collapsing the
numerous events that happen during a patient's stay and ignoring intercurrent
ICU complications or interventions. With CarpeDiem, we aimed to examine
clinical features on a per-day basis as done during the common practice of
daily physician rounds. The Successful Clinical Response in Pneumonia Therapy
(SCRIPT) CarpeDiem Dataset features 12,495 patient-ICU-days from 585 patients
enrolled in the SCRIPT study between June 2018 and March 2022, all of whom
were critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation suspected of having
pneumonia who underwent a bronchoalveolar lavage as part of routine clinical
care. Each patient has demographics, pneumonia episode information as
adjudicated by a panel of critical care physicians, outcomes, and 44 clinical
parameters for which data are present including vital signs, laboratory
parameters, and mechanical support devices. Data have been deidentified per
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Safe Harbor rules.
This dataset combines expert clinician adjudication with per-day granular
information to provide a unique tool to examine the clinical courses of
critically ill patients with pneumonia. We use this dataset in a manuscript
examining the contribution of ventilator-associated pneumonia to patient
outcomes (see Usage section for details) and share it for others to work with.